Hamilton Glacier is a
glacier about long draining northwest from
Edward VII Peninsula south of
Cape Colbeck, Antarctica. It was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
after
Gordon S. Hamilton of the faculty,
University of Maine, who was a theoretical and field researcher of ice motion in the West Antarctic ice stream area from the 1980s.
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See also
* List of glaciers in the Antarctic
There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
* Glaciology
References
Glaciers of King Edward VII Land
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